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Article: The arts in France around 1400.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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The French king Charles VI was born in Paris in 1368. At the age of twelve, in 1380, he succeeded to the throne under the regency of his uncles, including Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, who drained the royal treasury. When Charles VI began to rule in his own right in 1388, be faced political unrest as well as the continuing struggle with England known as the Hundred Years' War.
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Charles had two nicknames: the well-beloved and the mad. The first was due to his ability to unite various factions within France and the second was because of the recurring bouts of insanity, which began in 1392. Henry V of England took advantage of the ...